Fruit and vegetable washer



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A J, BAKER.

I FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WASHER.

No. 295,715 Patented Mar. 25, 1884.

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JOHN BAKER, OF MUSOATINE, IOWA.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WASHE/R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,715, dated Mareh 25, 1884.

Application filed October 29, 1883. (No model.)

A State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Fruit and Vegetables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to apparatus for wash- ,ingfruit and vegetables; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, as hereinafter. described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an end elevation of a vegetablewasher having my improvements. Fig. 2 is plan view of the apparatus, the washing cylinder being shown in section. A designates a tank or water-reservoir, which is semicircular in form, the heads or end pieces being usually of cast-iron and havinga sheet-metal casing, a, secured thereto. The tank has an outlet and cock, I), at the bottom, for discharging water, and a waste-pipe, a, near the brim. The legs or standards B, which support the tank, are of angle-iron, and

fit the corners, where they are firmly riveted to the tank, as shown in Fig. 2. They are fur ther strengthened in position by the horizontal braces G.

D is a rotary washing cylinder or receptacle for fruit and vegetables to be washed, the perforated heads (1 being usually of castironand having a perforated sheet-metal casing, 6, secured thereto. The cylinder is provided with a hinged lid, E, extending its entire length, for the purpose of filling and emptying the cylinder.

F is a perforated tubular shaft, passing lengthwise through the cylinder D, which is secured thereto by means of set-screws f, the shaft having its bearings in the heads of the tank, as shown.

G is a shaft extending along the frontof the tank and having bearings g, secured to the front standards B. Two arms, H, are keyedor made fast at their forward ends to the shaft G, and are connected at their rear ends with the cylinder-shaft F. A lever or hand-wheel, I, is secured to shaft G for turning the same. Two guides, J, one being placed at each end of the tank, are fastened in position, as seen in Fig. 1, the lower ends being secured to the a part of a circle the center of which would be in. the shaft G. By'tur 1-, Wafhihbein wpartiallyndwsilitlaliangh e ZLIIQIS H raises the cylinder D sitioh inId'" d-in pljgttledfliiies"ih h f g l, the cylinder -shaft 'iiio vin along n the sldtted r Wha er being br h the l jlfdlblihg 'al wed to fall op against the tank -as indmatedat s,'"tne contents of the cylinder are discharged, the open lid forming a chute for their passage to a suita ble receptacle. One end of the tubular shaft F is provided with a hose-coupling, It, and a.

stuffing-box, m, for the attachment of hose or a supply-pipe for conducting water into the tubular perforated shaft, from which the water passes through the contents of the perforated cylinder and'into the tank, filling the same. means of a crank, n, applied to the shaft F, the

The cylinder being then rotated by whole contents are thoroughly drenched and effectually cleansed, when the cylinder Culltai ning the washed vegetables or fruit is raised and emptied, as herein set forth.

I claim 1. The combination, with the tank A, of the G by means of the arms H, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with a tank, A, cy1in-.

der D, and circular slotted guides J, of the shaft G, connecting-arms H, and operating lever or wheel I, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

8. The combination, with the tank A, of the cylinder D, having perforated ends d, and

sides e, and mounted upon the tubular perforated shaft F, the slotted curved guides J, the shaft G, connecting-arms H, and operatinglevers I, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. I

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN BAKER. Witnesses:

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